2090 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 110

Social Welfare

Social Security Act 1964

Direction by the Minister of Social Welfare

In the matter of the section 5 of the Social Security Act 1964

To: The Director-General of Social Welfare

Pursuant to section 5 (2) of the Social Security Act 1964, I, Jennifer Mary Shipley, Minister of Social Welfare. HEREBY DIRECT that in relation to the exercise of your powers contained in section 86A of the Act to recover moneys as debts due to the Crown under section 86 of the Act:

1. That where a debt has been established, you will send a written notice to the debtor, stating that the debt has been established, specifying the amount of the debt, asking the debtor to contact the department so that arrangements for recovery can be made, and advising the debtor of his or her review and appeal rights.

2. If no satisfactory response is received within 1 week, you will send a further notice asking the debtor to contact the department so that arrangements for recovery can be made.

3. If no satisfactory response is received within two weeks of that second notice being sent, you will send a third notice informing the person that he or she has 10 days to contact the department and make satisfactory arrangements for the repayment of the debt, and that if he or she does not do so then a deduction notice may be issued.

4. You will send deduction notices to employers in preference to banks, unless recovery through the latter is the only realistic option available in the circumstances.

5. Deductions from bank accounts will be lump sum deductions. The level of the deduction will be based on the level of debt, and in setting the amount to be deducted, you will take into account the balance in the various accounts that the debtor has, the outgoings of that person (such as essential automatic payments, home mortgage repayments, etc.) that are known to you, and the amount that the debtor could reasonably be assumed to require to live on for 1 week.

6. If a debtor approaches the department claiming that a deduction notice is causing hardship, you shall review the issue of the deduction notice taking into account any alternative method of payment offered by the debtor.

7. Nothing in this direction shall prevent you from carrying out your duty to consider each case on its own individual circumstances, and in special circumstances to not follow this direction eg where a debtor is about to leave the country.

8. This direction shall not apply if at any stage the person has given his or her written consent to a deduction notice being issued.

9. You shall not issue a deduction notice if the debtor has filed an application for a review of an appeal which has not yet been decided.

Dated this 12th day of July 1993.

J. M. SHIPLEY, Minister of Social Welfare.

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Transport

Harbours Act 1950

Sale of Wanganui Harbour Land

I, William Robson Storey, Minister of Transport, having obtained the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to section 143A (3) of the Harbours Act 1950, hereby approve, pursuant to section 143A (1) (a) and section 143C (1) (b) of the Act, the sale of land referred to in the Schedule below by The Wanganui District Council and I specify that my approval is effective from the date of this notice.

Schedule

All that parcel of land containing 1000 square metres, more or less, situate in the City of Wanganui, being Lot 4 on Deposited Plan 45976 and being all of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 16D, folio 576 (Wellington Registry).

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of July 1993.

W. ROB STOREY, Ministry of Transport.

(MOT 43/16/6)

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Sale of Wanganui Harbour Land

I, William Robson Storey, Minister of Transport, having obtained the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to section 143A (3) of the Harbours Act 1950, hereby approve, pursuant to section 143A (1) (a) and section 143C (1) (b) of the Act the sale of land referred to in the Schedule below by The Wanganui District Council and I specify that my approval is effective from the date of this notice.

Schedule

All that parcel of land containing 640 square metres, more or less, situate in the City of Wanganui, being Lot 6 on Deposited Plan 20490 and being all of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 28C, folio 209 (Wellington Registry).

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of July 1993.

W. ROB STOREY, Ministry of Transport.

(MOT 43/16/6)

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Sale of Wanganui Harbour Land

I, William Robson Storey, Minister of Transport, having obtained the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to section 143A (3) of the Harbours Act 1950, hereby approve, pursuant to section 143A (1) (a) and section 143C (1) (b) of the Act the sale of land referred to in the Schedule below by The Wanganui District Council and I specify that my approval is effective from the date of this notice.

Schedule

All that parcel of land containing 1017 square metres, more or less, situate in the City of Wanganui, being part Lot H, Right Bank Wanganui River and being also Lot 3 on Deposited Plan 32355, and being all of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 9C, folio 503 (Wellington Registry).

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of July 1993.

W. ROB STOREY, Minister of Transport.

(MOT 43/16/6)

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